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Robert D. Finn

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
112223
World Ranking
3047
National Ranking
228

Robert D. Finn publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 390 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Robert D. Finn D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert D. Finn sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert D. Finn is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their major field of study lies within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 139 publications. The primary subfields covered include Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, and Information Systems.

The research topics addressed by Robert D. Finn show diverse interests with emphasis on:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert D. Finn includes:

  • "Pfam: The protein families database in 2021" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome" (2020), published in Nature Biotechnology
  • "Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert D. Finn include:

  • Lorna Richardson
  • Alexandre Almeida
  • Martín Beracochea
  • Varsha Kale
  • Tatiana A Gurbich

The venues where this scientist most frequently publishes encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Bioinformatics

Best Publications

  • The Pfam protein families database

    Marco Punta;Penny C. Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Jaina Mistry

  • Pfam: The protein families database in 2021.

    Jaina Mistry;Sara Chuguransky;Lowri Williams;Matloob Qureshi

  • Pfam: the protein families database.

    Robert D. Finn;Alex Bateman;Jody Clements;Penelope Coggill

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

    Robert D. Finn;Penelope Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Sean R. Eddy;Sean R. Eddy

  • HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

    Robert D. Finn;Jody Clements;Sean R. Eddy

  • The Pfam protein families database in 2019.

    Sara El-Gebali;Jaina Mistry;Alex Bateman;Sean R Eddy

  • The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019

    Fábio Madeira;Young mi Park;Joon Lee;Nicola Buso

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • Pfam: clans, web tools and services

    Robert D. Finn;Jaina Mistry;Benjamin Schuster-Böckler;Sam Griffiths-Jones

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

    Sarah Hunter;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on.

    Matthias Blum;Hsin Yu Chang;Sara Chuguransky;Tiago Grego

  • HMMER web server: 2018 update.

    Simon C Potter;Aurélien Luciani;Sean R Eddy;Youngmi Park

  • Twenty years of the MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors

    Neil D. Rawlings;Neil D. Rawlings;Alan J. Barrett;Alan J. Barrett;Robert D. Finn

  • InterPro in 2017-beyond protein family and domain annotations

    Robert D. Finn;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Alex Bateman

  • InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations.

    Alex L. Mitchell;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Matthias Blum

  • The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years

    Alex L. Mitchell;Hsin-Yu Chang;Louise C. Daugherty;Matthew Fraser

  • The MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors in 2017 and a comparison with peptidases in the PANTHER database

    Neil D Rawlings;Alan J Barrett;Paul D Thomas;Xiaosong Huang

  • HMMER web server: 2015 update

    Robert D. Finn;Jody Clements;William Arndt;Benjamin L. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Sean R. Eddy
Sean R. Eddy Harvard University
Neil D. Rawlings
Neil D. Rawlings European Bioinformatics Institute
Guy Cochrane
Guy Cochrane European Bioinformatics Institute
Simon C. Potter
Simon C. Potter European Bioinformatics Institute
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Paul D. Thomas
Paul D. Thomas University of Southern California
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Sam Griffiths-Jones University of Manchester
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Olivier Sparagano
Olivier Sparagano City University of Hong Kong

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